The TORCH Act aims to enhance the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to manage forests and reduce the risk of.
The TORCH Act, or Targeted Operations to Remove Catastrophic Hazards Act, seeks to improve forest management activities that mitigate wildfire risks. It establishes a categorical exclusion for certain high-priority hazard tree activities, exempting them from environmental assessments or impact statements. The Act also modifies good neighbor agreements to allow for the use of timber sales on National Forest System land for extreme risk reduction and increases the limit on timber sales from $10,000 to $50,000.
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